# July like a rug! This month's mini rants. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251 "2017-07-01T04:42:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2017, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/101 "2017-07-09T07:14:06Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I swear it’s part of their training. Yep. The cashiers at my current employer are trained to “chat up” customers. It makes for a friendly atmosphere which is supposed to make the customer want to return. Sometimes it works. Sometimes not. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/102 "2017-07-09T13:45:17Z")
What’s up with the latest Facebook trend of posting still photos as videos? They take an ordinary meme and make a 30 second video of it where you watch it and nothing happens. Why? ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/103 "2017-07-09T17:25:41Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > What’s up with the latest Facebook trend of posting still photos as videos? They take an ordinary meme and make a 30 second video of it where you watch it and nothing happens. Why? I am not 100% sure but I think it’s because a “video” gets thrown up on more newsfeeds than just a picture. One of those mysterious FB algorithms things. ---
**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/104 "2017-07-09T18:22:24Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I swear it’s part of their training. Our local family-run-for-ninety-years general store closed… but a Trader Joe’s opened there. So I’m there at least once a day (seriously, the wife’ll send me down the block for the pettiest ingredient), and I’ve gotten to know the cashiers by name. > > But even then, when they say “So, looks like you’re grilling out!” I’ll say “Good guess, _IF_ it was _ANY_ of your business…” > I arch an eyebrow, they laugh, and I get the same chattiness next time. Maybe you should do what **Chimera** does with the cat: squirt the cashier with water as he/she starts chatting. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/105 "2017-07-09T18:38:28Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > Yep. The cashiers at my current employer are trained to “chat up” customers. It makes for a friendly atmosphere which is supposed to make the customer want to return. > > Sometimes it works. Sometimes not. I was shopping for groceries yesterday and the clerk cheerily asked me, “And what are you doing this afternoon?!” I said, “Shopping for groceries”. It wasn’t a lie as I had one more stop to make, but it did shut down that line of questioning. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/106 "2017-07-09T19:20:40Z")
OK, this is borderline above mini-rant but I really did not want to start a whole thread. A friend of mine has been managing to start a careeras a twitch broadcaster. She’s been working very hard at it and has been making some decent goals in what is a field with a lot of competition. So, natuarlly a couple of internet shits demanded she send them nude photos or they would dox her. However, all they had was a very old address and there was no threat. She naturally told them to fuck off. But still, WTF? Who rasies their kids like that? If I had a kid who I found out pulled this shit they’d be grounded until they cleaned the dirt basement with nothing but their fingernails. I pulled some shit when I was a kid but never to that level. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/107 "2017-07-09T22:24:42Z")
Get some nude shots of KellyAnne, send those. (Can you send those without having to look at them? Must be a way…) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/108 "2017-07-09T22:33:04Z")
Nah, google those pictures of the really weird nude Trump statues from last year and send those. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/109 "2017-07-10T17:25:37Z")
☹ Woke up with a migraine this morning. Which of course meant that my mother had to call me to grill me about “why” I had a migraine, talk a lot and then invite me out to lunch with her and my niece to talk some more. No, no talking. Leave me alone today. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/110 "2017-07-10T18:23:52Z")
My son is at sleep away camp two hours away. This morning I get this chirpy email saying, “Good news! Parents’ night has become parent’s DAY! So moms, plan on getting to camp by 2 p.m. and staying through dinner and campfire on Wednesday! Hooray!” Yes. Hoo-fucking-ray. You want me to take a half day off work with less than a week’s notice to drive two hours, sit in near-100 degree weather watching my 11 year old son swim with his friends, then drive my happy ass back, arriving at 11 p.m. and go to work the next day? Well, sign me the fuck up! I hadn’t even planned to go at all until I was helpfully informed that my son would be the ONLY kid with no mom there. Now I’m getting shit for deciding I’ll at least show up for dinner, refusing to get there at 2. I really have to wonder whether my mom thought this much about my “tender” psyche at this age. I sure as shit know she wouldn’t have driven four hours round trip on a moment’s notice to join me at camp for the privilege of melting in the heat while chatting with other moms she’d just seen three days before. Fucking mom politics. All these moms either don’t work or work for the school system and have the whole summer off. I’m the only one who has a standard 9 to 5. Drives me batshit sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/111 "2017-07-10T20:51:47Z")
On the other hand, we have the single people like me who get told that married people with children have to have first rights to days off and vacation days because they have to plan around their children. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/112 "2017-07-11T00:28:55Z")
United Airlines [‘destroys’ man’s custom $42,000 wheelchair](http://www.ajc.com/news/world/united-airlines-destroys-man-custom-000-wheelchair-during-trip-from-france-the/tqCDEyUtKT4rEZwPW8XzeI/) during trip from France to the U.S. Why didn’t United just toss it from the plane at 28,000 feet and be done with it. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/113 "2017-07-11T02:54:05Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Some kind of hell bug stung me as I was heading out to the vet on Friday. I thought the rose bush had snagged me. It barely hurt. It wasn’t until the dog and I were situated in the car that I even bothered to pull out the stinger (what I thought at the time was a rose thorn.) > > It didn’t start itching until the next morning. The Pain arrived sometime around bedtime that day. (Bedtime - bonus.) > > Now it’s infected. Pus is pouring out of it. The Pain is like a hot needle pressing into my flesh and runs all down my little finger. I’ve managed to open up a small second scratch while trying to clean all the pus out of the first one. I’m sure that will get infected no matter how much peroxide I pour on it. > > No, I’m not going to the doctor. I have people coming over tomorrow. I don’t have time for this. I’m not paying holiday ER rates, either. > > Stupid hell bug. If this happen to you again get some Epsom salt it draw out pus . Mix it with some warm water and put it right on the bite . I got a tick right in my ear and it hurt like hell ! My ear was bright red and getting infected so I had to got ER and have the fucker taken out . The nurse wasn’t able to get the head out and my sister who a RN told me to use Epsom salt and it worked ,it draw the fucker head out of my ear . ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/114 "2017-07-11T15:26:30Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > If this happen to you again get some Epsom salt it draw out pus . Mix it with some warm water and put it right on the bite . I got a tick right in my ear and it hurt like hell ! My ear was bright red and getting infected so I had to got ER and have the fucker taken out . The nurse wasn’t able to get the head out and my sister who a RN told me to use Epsom salt and it worked ,it draw the fucker head out of my ear . Epsom salts. Interesting. My mom would make a paste with baking soda. Come to think of it, I couldn’t tell you if it was more of an actual poultice, or a placebo. ETA: She used it for bee stings. I never encountered a tick before I was thirty. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/115 "2017-07-11T15:30:16Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > A friend of mine has been managing to start a careeras a twitch broadcaster. What exactly is a “twitch broadcaster”? Or even vaguely? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/116 "2017-07-11T18:02:12Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > What exactly is a “twitch broadcaster”? > > Or even vaguely? Twitch: [https://www.twitch.tv/](https://www.twitch.tv/) ‘Broadcaster’ may not be the proper term, but DJ, host, presenter don’t seem right either. ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/117 "2017-07-11T18:49:28Z")
The proper way to put a bunch of disposable plastic-wear in containers in the break room is to have the handle pointing up. Yes, that might make it harder to initially identify what bin has knives, spoons or forks, but if you put the scooping / cutting / stabbing thing facing up, then people will get their hands all over numerous pieces, and that’s just gross. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/118 "2017-07-11T19:16:20Z")
I discovered a lump on my kitty Harley’s leg. The vet didn’t have an appointment available until tomorrow. I know my vet very well, used to volunteer in his office. I’m pretty sure if I pleaded and cried I could’ve gotten in today, but Harley is otherwise acting fine so I’m going to save the pleading and crying for another time. But it means I have to spend another night thinking the worst. This is the kitty I’ve called my orange asshole here on the board, but except for picking on his sister and eating paper/plastic (then barfing everywhere), he’s a sensitive, loving, funny kitty. I adopted him ten years ago when he was three when I volunteered at the shelter. He was having a meltdown during an adoption event and I was tasked with calming him. We connected. Somehow, I didn’t take him that night (a Saturday), but couldn’t stop thinking about him. The shelter was closed Sunday, but Monday morning I was waiting when they unlocked the door. He follows me around the house. When I was recovering from surgery, he only left my side to eat and use the litterbox. He comforted me when I lost my eighteen-year-old soulmate kitty. Right now he’s sleeping on his back, snoring, and chasing something in a dream. He makes us laugh every day. He does tricks-for-treats. He loves his toys. We have to have three pillows on the bed because he insists on sleeping right by my head. I’ll post a picture later today. Right now I’ve gotten myself pretty worked up. I’ve had two cancer kitties, neither of which turned out well. ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/119 "2017-07-11T19:25:16Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Twitch: [https://www.twitch.tv/](https://www.twitch.tv/) > > ‘Broadcaster’ may not be the proper term, but DJ, host, presenter don’t seem right either. “Livestreamer” may be the most accurate, though that may require an assumption that people understand what a livestream is. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251/120 "2017-07-11T19:47:25Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > This is the kitty I’ve called my orange asshole here on the board, but except for picking on his sister and eating paper/plastic (then barfing everywhere), he’s a sensitive, loving, funny kitty. Kitties thrive on verbal abuse, I think. Good luck to your orange asshole, and please let us know what the vet says. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/july-like-a-rug-this-months-mini-rants/790251.md?page=7)